49 quotes
“To bear lightly what needs must be is a great virtue.”
— Seneca
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
— Epictetus
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
“Even as the holy ones of old were arranged in their due order, and the stars fight from their courses, so is the deed its own judge, the deed its own reward.”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
— Cleanthes
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are.”
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“The greatest king is he who is king of himself.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
“The act itself is its own reward, and the punishment of the act is the act itself.”
“Nothing is ours except time.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
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